Donya Bommer
Inside New York's Biggest Co-op Deal!
Patrick McMullan
Even though Tom Wolfe didn’t include 1060 Fifth Avenue in his canonical 1985 list of the most high-heeled, high-nosed, high-fenced Manhattan buildings, it’s the kind of co-op where the very proper, philanthropic financiers who are allowed to buy the most massively expensive apartments are, by silent decree, supposed to stay for at least a few presidential administrations.
“We certainly would not look favorably if we thought someone was coming in with the notion of turning around and leaving quickly,” an owner at 1060 Fifth, built by J.E.R. Carpenter in 1928, said this week. George Soros stayed in the building after his divorce (his ex-wife got $24 million for the apartment). read more »
